On July 9, True the Vote re-filed its lawsuit True the Vote v Hosemann in the southern district of Mississippi. Last week the organization had filed the same case in the northern district, but then the judge who received the case in the northern district hinted that the case should have been filed in the(More)…
Nicholas Di Ioria, Republican nominee for U.S. House in New York’s 12th district, hopes to be the subject of a reality TV show. The show would not air until after the election. Nevertheless, it is not certain that the Federal Election Commission will let him proceed. See this story. The 12th district consists of the(More)…
This article examines the complicated legal issues, and practical issues, that are arising from the recount that is about to start in California for the Controller’s race, a statewide race.
Independent candidate Mark Bray, running for the U.S. House in Alabama’s 5th district, has qualified for the November ballot. See this story. He is the first independent candidate for Congress to appear on the Alabama ballot since 2006. The 5th district is the northern-most part of Alabama. If Bray had not qualified, the incumbent member(More)…
On July 3, the Hawaii Democratic Party filed this reply brief in Democratic Party of Hawaii v Nago, in the Ninth Circuit. The issue originally was whether the party has a right to close its primary to just members. On appeal, the issue is whether the Hawaii law, telling all qualified parties that they must(More)…
Los Angeles County, California, keeps a running total of the number of registered voters in each party, and the number of independents. Here is a link to that page. Since registration closed for the June 3 primary on May 19, the number of registered voters has declined. Every qualified party has declined, except that the(More)…
On July 5, Gravis Marketing released a poll for the Minnesota statewide races, including the Attorney General’s race. For that office, the results are: Democrat-Farmer-Labor Lori Swanson 49%, Republican Sharon Anderson 36%, Independence Party nominee Brendan Borgos 8%, Green Andy Dawkins 7%. If Dawkins receives as much as 5%, the Green Party will regain its(More)…
There were recently two major announcements regarding private businesses. The first from the US Supreme Court which ruled “the regulations promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services requiring …
The Morris Daily Herald here condemns Illinois Democratic Party leaders for filing challenges to the two statewide initiatives this year. So far the two initiatives are off the ballot, but the legislative term limits measure may yet qualify if it wins in the Illinois Supreme Court.
Here is the number of votes received by each minor party write-in candidate in the California June 3, 2014 primary (except that the results still aren’t available for the Assembly, 5th district): Board of Equalization district 3: Libertarian Jose Castaneda 173; Peace & Freedom Eric Moren 127; Peace & Freedom Jan Tucker 34. U.S. House(More)…
